地道美語聽力播客587:比賽排名

Irene: How is your team doing in the standings?

艾琳：你的團隊排名如何?

Kent: They’re seeded sixth and they’re in a bracket with one of the best teams in the tournament. Our team has already lost to them.

肯特：他們排第六名，并且他們將要和這次比賽中最好的團隊之一進行對決。還沒比賽，我們的隊伍就已經(jīng)輸了。

Irene: I thought it was a double-elimination tournament.

艾琳：我一直認為這是雙淘汰比賽。

Kent: It is. That’s the only reason they’re not out of contention for the title.

肯特：是雙淘汰賽。這是他們沒有失去爭奪冠軍機會的唯一原因。

Irene: Why did the organizers get rid of the round-robin rounds?

艾琳：為什么組織者要除去循環(huán)賽呢?

Kent: I think it’s because they wanted to cut down on the number of games overall. I’m not sure.

肯特：我想他們是想減少全部比賽的數(shù)量，當(dāng)然我也不確定。

Irene: Your team is the defending champion. What happened this year? Why aren’t they ranked higher?

艾琳：你的團隊是上屆冠軍，今年是怎么了?為什么他們沒有獲得更高的排名?

Kent: They didn’t have a very good season. There were a lot of injuries, and as the coach, I had some run-ins with a couple of the new players. Let’s just say we had some clashes in personality.

肯特：現(xiàn)在對于他們并不是非常好的賽季，隊伍里有很多人都受傷了，而且作為教練，我還插入了三兩個新隊員，我們只是說我們在性格方面有些不合。

Irene: Isn’t there a game this afternoon?

艾琳：今天下午沒有比賽嗎?

Kent: Yeah, but I have to feed my team first. They won’t play until they get what they want.

肯特：沒有，但是我得去犒勞一下我的隊員了，直到他們得到他們想要的他們才會去打比賽。

Irene: What do they want?

艾琳：他們想要什么?

Kent: Ice cream. Who knew six-year-olds could be so demanding?

肯特：冰淇淋。誰會想到六歲的孩子們要求這么高。